At 20:04 (PST) we started receiving alarms showing saturation of the Time Warner Telecom peer. Further investigation showed that a DDOS attack was aimed at our network and was mainly flowing down the TWTC path. After analyzing the traffic filters where put in place and traffic coming down TWTC returned to normal.
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July 23, 2011 – 8:30 pm By Shaun Reitan
Any plans to add a second upstream?
Robert, We already have multiple upstream providers. This attack only affected the TWTC path.